The start of this movie is reasonably suspenseful, because Harrison Ford's wife has suddenly gone missing in Paris. This mystery is being portrayed in a quite fascinating way. However later on in the movie, (while STILL searching for his wife), Harrison Ford gets involved in action chases with bad guys. From then on this movie starts to become less interesting, because director Roman Polanski isnt an action movie director whatsoever and the action is somewhat clumsy looking. There is more bad news: the other French supporting actors are rather mediocre. And the photography, editing and sound are looking and sounding quite bland. That is an astonishing NEGATIVE achievement to be able to make Paris look bland...
This movie fails to become grand, while it wants to a sweeping romantic thriller. Which it is not. Still good enough and worthwile a watch, because of the great suspense at the start and Harrison Ford's overall decent acting performance. But this is nothing above average. What's worse, near the end, things become increasingly unbelievable storywise...
This movie fails to become grand, while it wants to a sweeping romantic thriller. Which it is not. Still good enough and worthwile a watch, because of the great suspense at the start and Harrison Ford's overall decent acting performance. But this is nothing above average. What's worse, near the end, things become increasingly unbelievable storywise...